waiter vs waitperson

waiter

noun
  • A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar. 

  • A person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange. 

  • Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting. 

verb
  • To work as a waiter. 

waitperson

noun
  • A waiter or waitress. 

How often have the words waiter and waitperson occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )